VisionmaxX Group sells majority stake to NORD Holding

Frank­furt am Main / Hano­ver — ox8 Corpo­rate Finance exclu­si­vely advi­sed the share­hol­ders of Vision­maxX Group (“Vision­maxX”) on the sale of a majo­rity stake to NORD Holding.

Vision­maxX was foun­ded in 2004 by Stef­fen Konrad and Jens Schlerf and has since deve­lo­ped into the leading IT part­ner for medi­cal prac­ti­ces with a focus on the dental sector in Germany. The compre­hen­sive service port­fo­lio ranges from IT infra­struc­ture and tele­ma­tics services to prac­tice soft­ware inte­gra­tion and IT secu­rity. With its sister company Vision­Care, the Group is alre­ady actively tapping into the care sector, ther­eby laying the foun­da­ti­ons for a cross-sector growth stra­tegy in outpa­ti­ent healthcare. 

Toge­ther with the foun­ders Stef­fen Konrad and Jens Schlerf, NORD Holding aims to deve­lop the Vision­maxX Group into the central digi­tal IT infra­struc­ture plat­form for the outpa­ti­ent health­care sector in the DACH region. Growth is to be driven both orga­ni­cally through expan­sion into neigh­bor­ing specia­list groups and care areas as well as through targe­ted part­ner­ships and acquisitions. 

“We are at the begin­ning of a new phase — for our company and for the digi­ta­liza­tion of the health­care sector as a whole. NORD Holding is a very entre­pre­neu­rial part­ner and gives us the means and reach to create what we had in mind from the outset: a company that makes ever­y­day life in medi­cal prac­ti­ces easier in the long term,” says Stef­fen Konrad.
Jens Schlerf adds: “We built Vision­maxX because we are convin­ced that doctors need a part­ner to whom they can fully entrust their IT — so that they can concen­trate on their pati­ents. With NORD Holding, we now have the support to bring this vision to the entire outpa­ti­ent health­care sector.”

Mario Sabljo (photo), Part­ner at NORD Holding, says: “Vision­maxX is exactly the kind of company that NORD Holding invests in: an inno­va­tive quality company with clear market leader­ship, a well-coor­­di­na­­ted foun­ding team and a market that is growing struc­tu­rally.” — Stef­fen Konrad empha­si­zes: “Throug­hout the entire process, the ox8 team showed excep­tio­nal commit­ment and dyna­mism, which gave us the feeling of being opti­mally supported at all times.”

About Vision­maxX Group

Vision­maxX was foun­ded in 2004 and is today the leading specia­li­zed mana­ged service provi­der for IT services in German medi­cal prac­ti­ces with a focus on the dental sector. The company offers a compre­hen­sive port­fo­lio of IT infra­struc­ture, tele­ma­tics, IT secu­rity and digi­tal prac­tice solu­ti­ons. With its sister company Vision­Care GmbH, the group is also active in the care sector. Vision­maxX employs around 150 people. — www.visionmaxx.net

About NORD Holding

NORD Holding is one of the first and most renow­ned German invest­ment compa­nies and has been successfully active as an equity part­ner for SMEs in the DACH region for over 55 years. The focus is on the Direct Invest­ments and Fund Invest­ments divisions.
The Direct Invest­ments divi­sion focu­ses on estab­lished medium-sized compa­nies that have a rele­vant market posi­tion or have the poten­tial to achieve this through joint further deve­lo­p­ment. NORD Holding curr­ently holds majo­rity inte­rests in more than 15 medium-sized compa­nies and mana­ges assets of around € 4.0 billion, inclu­ding the fund of funds busi­ness. The Fund Invest­ments divi­sion targets the micro and small-cap segment of SME-orien­­ted private equity funds in Europe (primary, secon­dary and co-inves­t­­ments) and regu­larly acts as an anchor investor.
— www.nordholding.de

About ox8 Corpo­rate Finance

ox8 Corpo­rate Finance was foun­ded in 2018 by expe­ri­en­ced M&A experts and is an inde­pen­dent corpo­rate finance boutique based in Frank­furt. ox8 supports tech­no­logy and growth-orien­­ted SMEs in the DACH region in finan­cing and sales proces­ses and advi­ses on the sell-side and buy-side in mergers and acqui­si­ti­ons (M&A) and on raising capi­tal (growth capital).
ox8 sees itself as a consul­tant at eye level for visio­nary entre­pre­neurs, passio­nate mana­gers, stra­te­gic buyers and finan­cial inves­tors. In-depth indus­try exper­tise, an inter­na­tio­nal network and first-class tran­sac­tion proces­sing form the basis for high stan­dards of client orien­ta­tion and quality.
— www.ox8-cf.com